RE: DNA Strider
DNA Strider is truly wonderful. The program was written by Dr. Crhistian
Marck, who is a working molecular biologist as well as a computer
programer. The first two versions of DNA strider were free. Dr. Marck
now requests $200 to cover some of the costs of development and
distribution.
The DNA Strider 1.2 request form that I have requests a check for $200
payable to "Tresorier Delegue du Ce-Saclay". "The user agrees not to
make copies of the software.... other than running it on a few Macintosh
computers located inside my own laboratory." Note the term few
computers, not the usual one in a software license agreement.
The software is truly excellent, and $200 is not a high price.
Dr. Marck's address is:
Dr. Christian Marck
Service de Biochimie - Bat 142
Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay
91191 Gif-Sir-Yvette, FRANCE
I don't know of an e-mail address for Dr. Marck.
David Stillman
Department of Cellular, Viral and Molecular Biology
University of Utah Medical Center
Salt Lake City, UT 84132
stillman at bioscience.utah.edu
phone: 801-581-5429
fax: 801-581-3607